3Synonyms found for domesticated

Word Origin & History

domesticate 1630s, of animals; 1741, of persons, "to cause to be attached to home and family;" from pp. stem of M.L. domesticare "to dwell in a house," from domesticus (see domestic). Related: Domesticated; domestication.

Example Sentences for domesticated

Instead, they domesticated themselves and chose their own mates without human interference.

Of course, how domesticated animals ought to be treated should, must and is being widely debated.

Before they became domesticated crops, wild bananas were inedible fruit stuffed with stony seeds.

The animals are currently domesticated enough to serve as house pets.

Thus bottle gourds are one of the oldest domesticated species.

We hear plenty about species going extinct, but much less about particular breeds of animals, especially those we've domesticated.

It is the product of random mutation followed by selective breeding-as, indeed, are all domesticated creatures.

And such knowledge might help solve the long-disputed question of exactly why dogs were the first animal to be domesticated.

Remember that people used to believe they could clean their floors without domesticated cyclones.

The region also produced the first domesticated sheep, goats, pigs and cattle.